When contrasting the resolution of MGM's film The Wizard of Oz and the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum there are some significant differences.  In the book Dorothy's adventure starts in a storm in Kansas, where she falls asleep and when she wakes she finds herself in Oz.  She spends the book meandering through Oz, almost at the expensive of the readers time.  It seems the book is long merely for the sake of being long, and it is for this reason that the resolution does not seem adequate for such a drawn out tale.  At the end of her stay in Oz, Dorothy claps the heels of her shoes together and demands "Take me home to Aunt Em!"(258).  We are met with five astrix's and she whirls through the air and ends up back in Kansas, mid stride toward Aunt Em.  The book leaves the reader with the idea that Oz was a real place, that she traveled to some fantastical land while asleep in the storm.  The film contrasts greatly.  While stuck in the storm at the beginning of the film the house is uprooted and fly through the air, landing back down in Oz, much the same way Dorothy returned to Kansas in the book.  While the book seemed to continue merely for the sake of being long, the film had a clear beginning, middle and end.  It was Dorothy's return to Kansas in the film that gave the film the sense of resolution that the book lacks.  Dorothy wakes from the colorful Oz, in a sepia tone Kansas.  We are told repeatedly that Dorothy was dreaming, that she bumped her head.  And while our dreams of some distant, mystical land fade with each character's reminder that she was dreaming, they are themselves evidence that Oz was a real place.  The characters in Kansas played roles in Oz, leaving the audience unsure whether her unconscious surfaced in her dreams, or some parallel world does exist.  The book leaves us back in Kansas, and abruptly ends shortly after, with no doubt that Oz was a very real place.  The film on the other hand leaves us unsure, questioning, ever hopeful that Oz is truly out there...